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Avigail Schwartz

Avigail Schwartz

Rabbi Ending Long Hitch in Military

Lapp was 9 when his family arrived in the United States. He went on to study political science and religious education at Yeshiva University and was ordained at the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1957. He studied chaplaincy at the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., and the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.

Wasserstein Chronicled Modern Women

Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, known for wry portrayals of strong, conflicted, contemporary women in prizewinning works such as \”The Heidi Chronicles,\” died this week in New York.
While not always overtly Jewish, her characters still bore the mark of the playwright\’s traditional Jewish upbringing in New York.
Later in her life, the feminist writer became a Jewish mother, although perhaps not in the way her own Jewish mother pictured.

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